Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

A Madison County judge has postponed the trial of a former Huntsville Police officer charged with capital murder.

Berman Jerry Nowlin died Dec. 19 at his Huntsville home. His cause of death was unclear ... Nowlin probation or some other sentence short of prison time. He also would have been able to appeal ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper commutes the sentences of 15 convicted killers on death row, including three former Forsyth County residents, ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...

Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.